Tax cows, hogs for passing gas, burping?
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Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law.
It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
The executive vice president of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Ken Hamilton, estimated the fee would cost owners of a modest-sized cattle ranch $30,000 to $40,000 a year. He said he has talked to a number of livestock owners about the proposals, and "all have said if the fees were carried out, it would bankrupt them."
"It makes perfect sense if you are looking for ways to cut down on meat consumption and recoup environmental losses," said Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman in Washington for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
It also says that they might expand it to include chicken farmers. Obviously this concerns me. We don't have that many cattle, but we ARE farmers and this is ~I~N~S~A~N~E~!
I do want to make sure I have this straight for everyone else though. People in the U.S. are struggling to pay their bills soooooo certain members of our government want to...
* prevent oil drilling in our own country so we're at the mercy of Arab nations;
* run the coal industry out of business so people's electric bills will skyrocket and force new forms of energy (of course when the people in the North and northern Midwest all freeze to death they won't NEED new forms of energy);
* and charge farmers for farting animals which will either put farmers out of business, forcing us to import food OR make the cost of milk, dairy products and beef and poultry double or triple in price OR force us all to become vegetarians.
Time to build the arsenal people...
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~
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